Word: mcginley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...syrupy "togetherness" campaign; the "togetherness" legend no longer appears on McCall's covers. On taking over, he coolly dumped $400,000 worth of stories and articles because they were too dull, began spending $150,000 a month on new editorial material by top writers and personalities (e.g., Phyllis McGinley, Moss Hart), v. $82,000 a month under Weise. Mayes also polished up McCall's color photography, has expanded McCall's autobiographical digests, and will publish excerpts from the lives of Art Linkletter, Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier. The latest acquisition: U.S. rights for a two-part abridgement...
Also during the exercises in the Yard, John R. McGinley '31, 1958-59 President of the Associated Harvard Clubs, will welcome the seniors into the alumni ranks. After a speech by Dean Bundy, Class Colors will be presented to Freshman class representatives...
Principal speakers at the exercises will be Class Orator Adam Clymer '58, Class Poet Erich W. Segal '58 and Ivy Orator Harold E. Fitzgibbons '58. Hermon D. Smith '21, President of the Alumni Association, and John r. McGinley '31, President of the Associated Harvard Clubs, will welcome seniors to the Alumni ranks. Dean Bundy will also speak...
...children's writers: Dr. Seuss in How the Grinch Stole Christmas ("The Grinch hated Christmas!. . . No one quite knows the reason"), Ogden Nash in The Christmas That Almost Wasn't ("This was the gruesome, grimsome guard/That ruled the land under Evilard/And decided to outlaw Christmas"), and Phyllis McGinley in The Year without a Santa Claus ("Headlines screamed/Wires went humming./Santa says 'Too tired'/Not coming...
...indication that year of publication is 1957, not 1857, is a varying concern seen througout the magazine with man's ability to annihilate himself. Phyllis McGinley puts the sugar-coating of humor on the situation...